Word: sore
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton students feel very sore over the unqualified surrender which they have been drawn into making from their position. An Alumnus of several years said that the way matters stood at present placed the students in a puerile light, that they were wrong in not providing for some future action, that a system of espionage did exist in the college, and that he thought the majority of younger Alumni believed it. As it stands at present it is uncertain whether any further action will be taken...
...vote being 61 in favor of its passage and 51 opposed. The "Bones" and "Key" number 30 men, and were aided in their opposition by the 15 members of a recently organized senior society with the suggestive name of "For and Grapes," and by those who are known as "Sore-heads," men who are expected to be elected members of one or the other of the societies last year, but were not, and were now ashamed to vote for their suppression. An important point gained by the society men was in securing a vote by roll call, as many...
...week, practicing style and gracefulness. If you are a very heavy, fleshy man, do not commence by loading yourself down with sweaters and trotting a long distance. Your muscles at this stage will not be hard enough to stand the strain, and if you try this you will be sore and stiff for at least a week. If you are as I say, corpulent, take Turkish baths and long walks for about a week or ten days, by which time you will be ready to begin work. When a person strips for the first time in the season, he naturally...
...open letter to the President and fellows of Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his readers that "he is not a 'sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan which has been adopted is the same...
Green was considerably rattled the other day, when he called chloride of sodium "sore-eyed caladium." Green must have the "pink...